'Til politics do us part: Gender gap widens By Susan Page, USA TODAYWASHINGTON; Lynne and Scott Albert readily agree on family finances, summer vacations and the perfect holiday gifts for their 5-year-old twins; Care Bears for Cammie, a toy monster truck for Josh.But when it comes to politics, Lynne, an attorney, and Scott, a venture capitalist with an MBA, often disagree about candidates and issues. He's a Republican worried about taxes and government regulations who is "definitely" voting for President Bush next year. She's a Democrat concerned about policies that affect women and children, and she's shopping for the candidate with the best chance of beating Bush.

The couple from Chapel Hill, N.C., aren't unusual. Highly educated men and women increasingly view the political world in dramatically different ways: Men are mostly Republicans, women are predominantly Democrats. A modest gender gap among Americans who don't have college educations balloons for those with a college degree or more.

The political divide between college-educated men and women has been growing for a decade.And the trend has become more important as the number of women getting undergraduate and postgraduate degrees has surged.

"Highly educated women are a new Democratic base, almost to the same extent as union voters and ethnic voters," says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. Meanwhile, Republicans have made gains among all blue-collar workers, especially men.

The result: The stereotypes of the two political parties; Democrats as the party of the working stiff, Republicans as representing those with money in the bank; no longer fit. Each party has become a more complicated coalition in which social issues and "values" are as much a unifying force as traditional bread-and-butter concerns.-------This link provides state-by-state results and has info on other demographics.

Gender gaps are interesting. I saw a similar analysis being made in my country on referenda, where elderly men v young women was the usual match-up. It was pointed out that the women usually loses, for some reason (I think lack of self-esteem)...

In our recent referendum the no-side won 62-36 among women and 50-48 among men, so there was a clear difference.

'Til politics do us part: Gender gap widens By Susan Page, USA TODAYWASHINGTON; Lynne and Scott Albert readily agree on family finances, summer vacations and the perfect holiday gifts for their 5-year-old twins; Care Bears for Cammie, a toy monster truck for Josh.But when it comes to politics, Lynne, an attorney, and Scott, a venture capitalist with an MBA, often disagree about candidates and issues. He's a Republican worried about taxes and government regulations who is "definitely" voting for President Bush next year. She's a Democrat concerned about policies that affect women and children, and she's shopping for the candidate with the best chance of beating Bush.

The couple from Chapel Hill, N.C., aren't unusual. Highly educated men and women increasingly view the political world in dramatically different ways: Men are mostly Republicans, women are predominantly Democrats. A modest gender gap among Americans who don't have college educations balloons for those with a college degree or more.

The political divide between college-educated men and women has been growing for a decade.And the trend has become more important as the number of women getting undergraduate and postgraduate degrees has surged.

"Highly educated women are a new Democratic base, almost to the same extent as union voters and ethnic voters," says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. Meanwhile, Republicans have made gains among all blue-collar workers, especially men.

The result: The stereotypes of the two political parties; Democrats as the party of the working stiff, Republicans as representing those with money in the bank; no longer fit. Each party has become a more complicated coalition in which social issues and "values" are as much a unifying force as traditional bread-and-butter concerns.-------This link provides state-by-state results and has info on other demographics.

NASCAR- is the professional racing league here in America, you know the "Winston Cup Series" , Dale Jerret, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, etc.

One of the fastest growing sports here in the states and important as it is seen as new "Soccer moms" group./ Mostly fathers int eh South and Midwest that enjoy the sport and vote GOP and increasingly going more GOP, but Dems for some reason think they can steal them away this year.

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Ah. I figured I rembered it from somewhere, but I didn't make the connection right away. Thanks. (I don't know a lot about the sport, but I've heard of it...) I will tell myself that the last part was biased!

NASCAR- is the professional racing league here in America, you know the "Winston Cup Series" , Dale Jerret, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, etc.

One of the fastest growing sports here in the states and important as it is seen as new "Soccer moms" group./ Mostly fathers int eh South and Midwest that enjoy the sport and vote GOP and increasingly going more GOP, but Dems for some reason think they can steal them away this year.

Ah. I figured I rembered it from somewhere, but I didn't make the connection right away. Thanks. (I don't know a lot about the sport, but I've heard of it...) I will tell myself that the last part was biased!

NASCAR- is the professional racing league here in America, you know the "Winston Cup Series" , Dale Jerret, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, etc.

One of the fastest growing sports here in the states and important as it is seen as new "Soccer moms" group./ Mostly fathers int eh South and Midwest that enjoy the sport and vote GOP and increasingly going more GOP, but Dems for some reason think they can steal them away this year.

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Republicans think every day is July 4, Democarts think every day is April 15President Reagan

Well I can hear you and soon the whole world will hear all of us. President George Bush

Ah. I figured I rembered it from somewhere, but I didn't make the connection right away. Thanks. (I don't know a lot about the sport, but I've heard of it...) I will tell myself that the last part was biased!

NASCAR- is the professional racing league here in America, you know the "Winston Cup Series" , Dale Jerret, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, etc.

One of the fastest growing sports here in the states and important as it is seen as new "Soccer moms" group./ Mostly fathers int eh South and Midwest that enjoy the sport and vote GOP and increasingly going more GOP, but Dems for some reason think they can steal them away this year.

I hate NASCAR. And it isn't growing, it stopped growing when Earnhardt died. You know what's growing? College Football. When we institute a lucrative playoff system, watch the people and the $$$ flow in.

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I hate NASCAR. And it isn't growing, it stopped growing when Earnhardt died. You know what's growing? College Football. When we institute a lucrative playoff system, watch the people and the $$$ flow in.

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Well I can hear you and soon the whole world will hear all of us. President George Bush

That if you 'work for a living', (a term I get from my dad, a huge nascar fan) the Democrat party is no longer for you. You might not fit the snobbish view of America from million dollar manhattan apartments or the bastions of liberal/socialist thought and thus would be an embarrassment.

I hate NASCAR. And it isn't growing, it stopped growing when Earnhardt died. You know what's growing? College Football. When we institute a lucrative playoff system, watch the people and the $$$ flow in.

But USC looked damn good against Michigan. I like the old bowl system better, with the traditional conference matchups. The BCS is BS.

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That if you 'work for a living', (a term I get from my dad, a huge nascar fan) the Democrat party is no longer for you. You might not fit the snobbish view of America from million dollar manhattan apartments or the bastions of liberal/socialist thought and thus would be an embarrassment.

OK, I got that, I was just wondering why you were directing at me in a so specific way, like I needed to know this more than any other person on the board. But I find it easy to believe you, most communists have always been upper class. My dad comes from a working class family and he has always held open contempt for "spoiled upper-class kids" who were communists in 1968 movement (or later for that matter).

I don't see why I would be a bad nominee just because I prefer the opera to the Opry, or prefer skiing and squash to watching some car, or because I think that thought should take precedence over the economic self-interests of the working class within our party.

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Registered in Massachusetts as a Democrat for Fantasy Elections, though now living in Rome.

I would guess that the gender gap would be more pronounced the higher up the economic tree you get.

Over here Labour has always won more male votes than female votes, partly due to the(reasonably accurate) sterotype of a Labour supporter as being white, working class and Northern. The stuff about doping whippits and eating chips with everything is not.

I would guess that the gender gap would be more pronounced the higher up the economic tree you get.

Over here Labour has always won more male votes than female votes, partly due to the(reasonably accurate) sterotype of a Labour supporter as being white, working class and Northern. The stuff about doping whippits and eating chips with everything is not.

The reason men used to be more inclined to Labour than women is because of the heavily unionised male workforce. In the 1960's most men belonged to a trade union, whereas working women did not. Many British men engaged in heavy industry held strong socialist, populist beliefs whereas women were much more conservative.In Britain today however it's more of an age voting gap. The average age of Tories in the UK is about 173! All younger age groups tend to be inclined away from the Tories to LD or Labour. Funny you should say that NASCAR dads are GOP voting and classical music sorts Dem Voting. In Britain it would be the opposite. Beer guzzling, sports obsessed British rednecks are overwhelmingly Labour. The type of person who listens to classical music and dines out in fine restaurants or tea shops is the archetypal Tory.

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I live in the UK and regard myself as a socially liberal, economic centrist. I vote for the British Labour party and support the Canadian NDP and US Democratic parties.